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Quotes About Repetition

We keep coming back and coming backTo the real: to the hotel instead of the hymnsThat fall upon it out of the wind.
~ Wallace Stevens
Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.
~ Wallace Stevens
A man needs something, some sense of accomplishment to maintain his sense of human dignity, of his value and worth as a person; even under the most stringent, most repetitious and boring routine, a man seeks something to maintain his sense of dignity and of worth.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Juan podría haber utilizado el disco rayado, que consiste en repetir la misma frase, una y otra vez, hasta que la persona que intenta manipularnos se canse. Por ejemplo, si alguien quisiera venderle una aspiradora que usted no necesita, podría convertirse en un buen disco rayado, diciendo: "No gracias, no la necesito", "No gracias, no la necesito", las veces que sean necesarias hasta que el vendedor comprenda que usted es un caso perdido.
~ Walter Riso
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.
~ Walter Slezak
Repetition is a potent means of heightening the inner vibration and is, at the same time, a source of elementary rhythm which, in turn, is a means to the attainment of elementary harmony in every form of art.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy
~ Wendy Mass
One leather-bound copy of the Bible, black, Book of Genesis repeated twice One
~ Wendy Mass
Fully 43 percent of the time, our actions are habitual, performed without conscious thought. We had provided the first scientific estimate of how often people act out of habit. It turned out to be a lot higher than science at the time had assumed.
~ Wendy Wood
In psychology we have a name for the automatic scripts our brains piece together when we repeatedly do the same thing in the same way: procedural memory. It's such an important repository of information that only the most frequently repeated patterns get stored like this.
~ Wendy Wood
He called it the double law of habit.3 Basically it means this: repetition strengthens our tendency to act, but it also weakens our sensation of that act.
~ Wendy Wood
There are those who go their whole lives without realizing that they are repeating the same things every day."
~ Wesley D'Amico
Al??kanl?klar dinlendiricidir, çünkü tekrar edilebilirli?in ve güvenilirli?in damgas?n? ta??rlar.
~ Wilhelm Schmid
We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
~ Will Durant
Little repetition is needed for learning.
~ Daniel Kahneman
We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Anything that makes it easier for the associative machine to run smoothly will also bias beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
~ Daniel Kahneman
reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The lesson of figure 5 is that predictable illusions inevitably occur if a judgment is based on an impression of cognitive ease or strain. Anything that makes it easier for the associative machine to run smoothly will also bias beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Words that you have seen before become easier to see again
~ Daniel Kahneman
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. But
~ Daniel Kahneman
We have defined noise as undesirable variability in judgments of the same problem. Since singular problems are never exactly repeated, this definition does not apply to them. After all, history is only run once. You will never be able to compare Obama's decision to send
~ Daniel Kahneman
Gruesome images, endlessly repeated in the media, cause everyone to be on edge. As I know from experience, it is difficult to reason oneself into a state of complete calm.
~ Daniel Kahneman
SPEAKING OF COGNITIVE EASE "Let's not dismiss their business plan just because the font makes it hard to read." "We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again." "Familiarity breeds liking. This is a mere exposure effect." "I'm in a very good mood today, and my System 2 is weaker than usual. I should be extra careful.
~ Daniel Kahneman